Northwood #663 OPTIC RAYS FLARED RIM BLUE STRETCH GLASS BOWL, circa 1925

Description

Northwood 663 Blue Stretch Glass Flared Optic Rays Bowl ca 1925
(Photo taken outdoors with no flash.  More photos below.)
Classic Northwood Glass
Flared Rim Blue Stretch Glass
Optic Rays Bowl
(Northwood Form # 663)
Approximate Dimensions:
9 3/4" (Diameter)
3 1/4" (High)
4" (Diameter of Pedestal Base)
Made by
Harry C. Northwood Glass Company
Wheeling, West Virginia
ca 1925
Sources
:
Madeley, John and Dave Shetlar (1998),
American Iridescent Stretch Glass:  Identification and Value Guide.
Collector Books: Paducah, KY, page 115 (Plate 530).
Heacock, William, James Measell, & Berry Wiggins (1991),
Harry Northwood: The Wheeling Years 1901-1925.
Antique Publications: Marietta, OH.
This is a tremendous, vintage blue stretch glass bowl with flared rim and 28 optic rays made by the Harry C. Northwood Glass Company circa 1925, pattern number 663.
{Photo taken outdoors with no flash.}
{Photo taken indoors with sunlight, no flash}
{Photo taken outdoors with no flash}
Very Brief Background on Northwood & Dugan.
Thomas Dugan and his cousin, Harry C. Northwood, started out in the 1880s as employees at the Hobbs-Brockunier Glass firm in Wheeling, West Virginia.  Eventually, Harry would form the
Northwood Glass Company
of Wheeling, West Virginia and Thomas would form the
Dugan Glass Company of Indiana, Pennsylvania
.  Both companies were kingpins of the carnival and opalescent glass market in the early 1900's.  Trading, swapping, or "borrowing" one another's glass moulds has been speculated.  Both Northwood and Dugan-Diamond Glass shut down in the mid-1920s.
Condition.
This item is in
very good condition
with no chips, cracks, flea bites, or restorations.
It has several internal air bubbles from manufacturing, one of which has burst on the inside.  It cannot be felt.  (Please see photo directly below.)
{Burst internal air bubble from manufacturing.}
The bowl has been used but not abused, i.e, there are some very light surface scratches and the base is slightly rough or scuffy from normal use, but not chipped or chiggered.
The
iridescence is very good
with a lot of purple and and aqua tones.
{Wonderful iridescence with purple and aqua tones.}
There are, of course, the usual straw marks ("shearing and crimping tool marks") from manufacturing commonly associated with the making of old EAPG, carnival, and opalescent glass. The hand making and finishing of old glass assures that no two pieces are identical, each piece is truly unique.
... would look great alongside any Northwood, Dugan, Jefferson,  Millersburg, Fenton, Westmoreland, Sowerby, Riihimaki, Brockwitz, Cambridge, Imperial, or other antique glass from the makers of fine opalescent, carnival glass, and EAPG.
{Photo taken outdoors with no flash.}
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